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What is the purpose of `Absinthe.Middleware` in a schema definition?

1. What is the purpose of `Absinthe.Middleware` in a schema definition?
2. What is a "fragment" in a GraphQL query sent to an Absinthe server?
3. What does an Absinthe "interface" type allow a schema to express?
4. What is the purpose of GraphQL "mutations" in an Absinthe schema, as distinct from "queries"?
5. In Absinthe, how is a GraphQL schema typically defined?
6. What does it mean that GraphQL (and Absinthe) queries are typically served over a single endpoint, unlike REST's many resource-specific endpoints?
7. What is the role of the `context` in an Absinthe resolver function?
8. Why does Absinthe integrate particularly well with the Phoenix web framework?
9. What is a "resolver" in the context of an Absinthe GraphQL field?
10. What is Absinthe?
11. What does defining a custom GraphQL scalar type in Absinthe (e.g. for a Date) allow?
12. What does the "N+1 query problem" refer to in the context of GraphQL resolvers, and how does Absinthe commonly address it?

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